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The travel experience filled with personal trauma; the pilgrimage through a war-torn place; the journey with those suffering: these represent the darker sides of travel. What is their allure and how are they represented? This volume takes an ethnographic and interdisciplinary approach to explore the writings and texts of dark journeys and travels. In traveling over the dead, amongst the dying, and alongside the suffering, the authors give us a tour of humanity’s violence and misery. And yet, from this dark side, there comes great beauty and poignancy in the characterization of plight; creativity in the comic, graphic, and graffiti sketches and comments on life; and the sense of profound and spiritual journeys being undertaken, recorded, and memorialized.
“The greatest insights and discoveries come from actively exploring and mapping out the fertile connections between the different essays. If readers are willing to do this, they will, I think, ultimately find that the book provides a very stimulating engagement with both the dark side of travel, and the dark side of travel writing.” · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
“This volume is truly coherent and contributes to a better understanding of a little appreciated aspect of contemporary tourism. It will certainly become a standard reference work in the field of anthropology of tourism and tourism studies. Despite the “darkness” of the issues addressed, it must be considered a very colourful success.” · Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Writings on the Dark Side of Travel
Jonathan Skinner
Chapter 1. Between Trauma and Healing: Tourism and Neoliberal Peacebuilding in Divided Societies
John Nagle
Chapter 2. Sebald’s Ghosts: Travelling among the Dead in The Rings of Saturn
Simon Cooke
Chapter 3. Graphic Wounds: The Comics Journalism of Joe Sacco
Tristram Walker
Chapter 4. Visiting Rwanda: Accounts of Genocide in Travel Writing
Rachel Moffat
Chapter 5. Walking Back to Happiness? Modern Pilgrimage and the Expression of Suffering on Spain’s Camino de Santiago
Keith Egan
Chapter 6. Shades of Darkness: Silence, Risk, and Fear among Tourists and Nepalis during Nepal’s Civil War
Sharon Hepburn
Chapter 7. Beyond Frames: The Creation of a Dance Company in Healthcare through the Journey of Brain Trauma
Jenny Elliott
Chapter 8. The House on the Hill: An Analysis of Australia’s Stolen Generations’ Journey into Healing through the Site of
Trauma
Fiona Murphy
Chapter 9. Exploring Landscapes after Battle: Tourists at home on the old Front Lines
Jennifer Iles
Notes on Contributors